Join the Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education for its Critical Issues forum, "Navigating Towards a Brighter Future: COVID-19 and Student Mental Health" on Thursday, March 4 at 1:30 p.m.

Learn how leaders can support the mental health of students as we navigate towards the end of the COVID-10 pandemic.

Keynote speaker, Dr. David Schonfeld (Director, National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement) will discuss key considerations for supporting school recovery. He will be followed by a panel on school-level strategies for addressing these challenges and a panel on the role of state policy makers in addressing student mental health. The complete panel lists are as follows:

Panel #1: What's Happening in the Schools
Dr. Terri McFadden, Immediate Past President, Georgia Chapter-American Academy of Pediatrics - Moderator
Mr. David Crooke, CEO, CarePartners of Georgia
Dr. Curtis Jones, Superintendent, Bibb County Schools
Dr. Tinisha Parker, Executive Director of Student Services, Gwinnett County Schools

Panel #2: State Structures: A Policy Conversation
Dr. Erica Fener Sitkoff, Executive Director, Voices for Georgia's Children - Moderator
Dr. Sarah Vinson, Chair, Children and Adolescent Behavioral Health SubCommittee, Georgia Behavioral Health Reform and Innovation Commission
Ms. Kim Jones, Executive Director, National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)

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